B. C. Forbes
He who has faith has... an inward reservoir of courage, hope, confidence, calmness, and assuring trust that all will come out well - even though to the world it may appear to come out most badly.Collection: Courage
Jealousy... is a mental cancer.Collection: Jealousy
It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn.Collection: Gardening
Real riches are the riches possessed inside.Collection: Money
If you don't drive your business, you will be driven out of business.Collection: Business
History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats.Collection: History
Christmas is a tonic for our souls. It moves us to think of others rather than of ourselves. It directs our thoughts to giving.Collection: Christmas
A shady business never yields a sunny life.Collection: Business
He best keeps from anger who remembers that God is always looking upon him.Collection: Anger
The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.Collection: Chance
The man who has done his level best... is a success, even though the world may write him down a failure.Collection: Success
The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.Collection: Failure
Books are like a mirror. If an ass looks in, you can't expect an angel to look out.
Difficulties should act as a tonic. They should spur us to greater exertion.
The truth doesn't hurt unless it ought to.
Golf without bunkers and hazards would be tame and monotonous. So would life.
The bargain that yields mutual satisfaction is the only one that is apt to be repeated.
Many a man thinks he is patient when, in reality, he is indifferent.
There is more credit and satisfaction in being a first-rate truck driver than a tenth-rate executive.
A business like an automobile, has to be driven, in order to get results.
To make headway, improve your head.
Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.
Better to be occasionally cheated than perpetually suspicious.
What you have outside you counts less than what you have inside you.
Turn resolutely to work, to recreation, or in any case to physical exercise till you are so tired you can't help going to sleep, and when you wake up you won't want to worry.
Opportunity rarely knocks on your door. Knock rather on opportunity's door if you ardently wish to enter.Collection: Inspirational
Honesty pays dividends both in dollars and in peace of mind.Collection: Inspirational
If you do the best and the most you can today, don't worry about tomorrow.Collection: Worry
Plan your work - work your planCollection: Plans
The Bible says, 'Where there is no vision, the people perish.' Have you a vision? And are you undeviatingly pressing and pushing toward its accomplishment? Dreaming alone will not get you there. Mix your dreams with determination and action.Collection: Dream
Our future and our fate lie in our wills more than in our hands, for our hands are but the instruments of our wills.Collection: Determination
Triumph often is nearest when defeat seems inescapable.Collection: Motivational
Acting without thinking is like shooting without aiming.Collection: Thinking
How you start is important, but it is how you finish that counts. In the race for success, speed is less important than stamina. The sticker outlasts the sprinter.Collection: Persistence
Cheerfulness is among the most laudable virtues. It gains you the good will and friendship of others. It blesses those who practice it and those upon whom it is bestowed.Collection: Practice
A word of appreciation often can accomplish what nothing else could accomplish.Collection: Appreciation
In the race for success, speed is less important than stamina.Collection: Race
The most profitless things to manufacture are excuses.Collection: Excuse
Timing is everything. Tell me how a young man spends his evenings and I will tell you how far he is likely to go in the world. The popular notion is that a youth's progress depends upon how he acts during his working hours. It doesn't. It depends far more upon how he utilizes his leisure...If he spends it in harmless idleness, he is likely to be kept on the payroll, but that will be about all. If he diligently utilizes his own time...to fit himself for more responsible duties, then the greater responsibilities - and greater rewards - are almost certain to come to him.Collection: Time
You have no idea how big the other fellow's troubles are.Collection: Ideas
It's so much easier to do good than to be good.Collection: Goodness
Many of the most successful men I have known have never grown up. Youthfulness of spirit is the twin brother of optimism... Resist growing up!Collection: Brother
The men who have done big things are those who were not afraid to attempt big things, who were not afraid to risk failure in order to gain success.Collection: Success
Bragging often precedes begging.Collection: Bragging
Success is sweetest to one who has known failure.Collection: Sweetest
The majority of America's colossal fortunes have been made by entering industries in their early stages and developing leadership in them.... Think of what opportunities the present and the future contain in such fields as ship-building and ship-owning, aircraft, electrical development, the oil industry, different branches of the automotive industry, foreign trade, international banking, invention, the chemical industry, moving pictures, color photography, and, one night add, labor leadership.Collection: Photography
It is a great mistake for presidents and other leading executives of organizations having branches throughout the country to chain themselves to their desks at headquarters and send out rigid instructions to those in charge of distant branches and offices. Because a man sits in a palatial office in New York or Chicago or Philadelphia or Detroit and draws a big salary, it does not necessarily follow that he knows better than the man on the spot what ought to be done.... Paul, Caesar, Napoleon did not merely sit at home and issue long-range instructions.Collection: Country
Uncertainty hurts business. It annoys individuals. Why keep the whole country, including business and individuals, in uncertainty over the extent of the tax burdens to be placed upon us? How many of those who voted for Calvin Coolidge imagined for a moment that would do nothing to bring about tax relief before 1926?.... But if the Administration persists in opposing a special session then it will inevitably be 1926 before action is taken.... Coolidge and Congress should ease our minds and grease our activities by reforming and reducing taxation as soon as feasible after March 4.Collection: Country
Ugliness, squalor are breeding grounds for revolution. Beauty is conducive to tranquillity, happiness. Beautifying of homes and places of worship began with the dawn of civilization. Beautifying of workplaces is only in its infancy. Yet, since men normally spend more than half of their waking hours at work, surely it is important that adequate attention be devoted to elevating their working environment, whether office or factory, foundry or machine shop, mine or warehouse. Beautiful surroundings subtly encourage beautiful living. Drab surroundings, bad air, bad light, evoke bad reactions.Collection: Beautiful
Accuse American businessmen of being responsible for radicalism and they would indignantly deny the accusation. Yet, in one fundamental sense, they are responsible. They are responsible in the sense that they have utterly neglected to take part in the work and the organization which precede the choosing of candidates for political office. Local political organizations all over the land are conducted and controlled, as a rule, by politicians.... Businessmen have shirked such responsibilities, leaving an untrammeled field to others less capable of carrying on the administration of government.Collection: Responsibility